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Published 21:11 29 Aug 2016 BST
Updated 09:09 30 Aug 2016 BST
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According to The Mirror, the staggering twenty-leg accumulator (yes, *twenty-leg*) was placed with Ladbrokes and featured bets from across Europe - including Manchester City's 3-1 victory over West Ham and Barcelona's slender 1-0 win away at Atheltic Bilbao - as well as the US and Argentina, with odds ranging from 1/33 to 10/11.
With nineteen matches already going his way, the punter will have faced a nerve-shredding wait for the final leg of his accumulator to come in, with Portugal's Rio Ave only scoring their match-winning goal against Feirense during injury time on Sunday night.
Here's a look at the other 17 correctly predicted results...
Las Palmas 5-1 Granada (17/20)
New York Red Bulls 1-0 New England Revolution (1/2)
Genk 1-0 Zulte Waregem (10/11)
AZ Alkmaar 2-0 NEC Nijmegen (4/9)
Achilles 29 2-3 MVV Maastricht (1/33)
IFK Goteborg 2-0 Helsingborgs (3/5)
Orebro 3-2 Falkenbergs (4/9)
Sundsvall GIF 0-1 Malmo FF (10/21)
Lech Poznan 2-0 Piast Gliwice (4/6)
Oleksandria 4-0 Zirka Kirovohrad (3/4)
Ruch Chorzow 0-2 Legia Warsaw (4/5)
Stal Dniprodzerzhynsk 0-1 Shakhtar Donetsk (1/4)
Viktoria Plzen 3-1 Slavia Praha (13/20)
Anzi Makhachkala 0-2 Spartak Moscow (17/20)
River Plate 4-1 Banfield (13/20)
Akropolis 5-1 Enskede (3/10)
Cruzeiro EC 2-0 Santa Cruz PE (2/5)
When your luck's in, your luck is in.
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